Racial Justice and Health Equity

​Boston’s residents are majority people of color, and Boston continues to be on the list of most racially segregated cities. There are persistent disparities in health outcomes for Black and Latinx Bostonians as compared to White Bostonians for many health indicators, including birth outcomes, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic conditions(Health of Boston Report). This racial segregation results in great differences in healthoutcomes by zip code. Furthering its commitment to improving the health of communities of color, BPHC has been devoted to advancing racial justice and health equity since 2000.

The timeline below showsBPHC’s organizational change process to address racial and ethnic health inequities. This process is not linear. The learning is ongoing and there is no one best way to go about this work.

​2000

BPHC, community activists, public health officials, scholars, and others
form the REACH Boston 2010 Breast and Cervical Cancer Coalition to address the
unequal rates of breast and cervical cancer deaths for black women.​

2005​

BPHC’s Anti-Racism Internal Working Group is formed following a
BPHC-wide "Undoing Racism" Training. The Anti-Racism Advisory Committee is formally established in 2008.​